Dr. Richard Muller is a brilliant man, but his fields of expertise are particle theory and astrophysics.

Collecting data about temperature from weather records is boring, hum drum stuff, and would cause distress in the overly-bright Muller.

Muller sharply criticized the "hockey stick graff" put forth from "climate scientist" Mann. It was a hybrid made from two completely different types of data, hence the sharp change on the graph's slope. Muller rightly called it "misinformation" which caused some problems for him at ultra-Liberal UC Berkeley.

This exercise should make life much easier for him. The other profssors may even start talking to him again.